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Does printer color usage depend on how the object is designed?
I. Normally, a drawing program will send the data to a printer as you expected in this case. The printer will not care about the blue rectangle below the triangle.
II. A printer does not have "...
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Image format for downloading in stages
Save as a JPEG and select PROGRESSIVE in the save options. You can also select a number of 'scans' to adjust how low the resolution starts off and therefore how gradually the JPEG will get from low ...
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Mac app to compare processed image before/after?
Not in any specific order.
Kaleidoscope - $70 ( Mac )
PixCompare - $4 ( Mac )
Pixel Diff - $2 ( Mac )
ImageDiff - $2 ( Mac )
Araxis Merge - $150 give or take ( Mac and Windows )
Image Comparer - $35 (...
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Optimizing images: Resize or optimize first?
I optimise images for web almost everyday.
Optimisation should always be the last step. Why?
Photoshop adds metadata when exporting files even if you optimise the source file. So you have to process ...
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Does printer color usage depend on how the object is designed?
The way the applications work is that they try, and succeed to most extent, to make a what you see is what you get environment. So anthing you put on top knocks out the thing below (I am ignoring ...
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Reduce File Size of SVG
You have the original image still embedded in the SVG. The '<image>'-tag you've pointed out is basically the whole large PNG file encoded in Base64, which makes it even bigger. Tracing an image ...
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Why is my SVG file so big?
The SVG file is bigger because it contains more data (in the form of paths and nodes) in comparison to the data contained in the PNG.
SVGs aren't really comparable to PNG images. One is vector, the ...
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Programmatically created a gradient effect through division of space into fine mesh, and then colouring each box. SVG output huge! How to simplify?
This is not something that can be solved. SVG is just the wrong format for this. Use bitmaps or something else. Although you better not use paths just use rectangle elements, but still SVG is super ...
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Why does enabling transparency in an animated gif reduce its file size?
Got some free time and decided to skim through the GIF Specification. For a layman (i.e. me) it's pretty dense. That said, I think I've found what makes the optimization possible.
For context, under ...
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GIMP how to remove level from nested level
Drag each layer out of the layer group
Layers actually can't be nested in GIMP. What you are seeing is a layer group, which is just a container to help organize layers and perform some actions on all ...
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Does the GIF file format remove shared data between frames?
I was wondering if the GIF file format removed data which is shared between frames like a common background
Yes. But depends on the application that makes it.
Depending on the application you are ...
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Does the GIF file format remove shared data between frames?
GIF compression is primarily in the colour table, rather than the image pixels - subsetting to a decreased total gamut and (depending upon export settings) can subset further to include definitions ...
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Why do images appear to have one file size on desktop but then another in an image editing piece of software?
Some formats are compressed formats - Tiff, JPG, PNG, PSD, etc., all use compression. Therefore the image size reported for an open image in an application is often the uncompressed size, whereas on ...
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New: Photoshop - Export As - Why no Progressive JPG Option
Given that internet and phone data speeds have increased exponentially since the inception of the "Progressive" option, the page load speed gained by progressive jpegs has largely lost its ...
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Missing icons of whole Adobe products
I once encounter the same exact problem. My app icons on the start menu just didn't appear. I tried a couple, there are people who come to different solutions.
There is this post in SuperUser forums ...
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How to optimize a linegraphic from screenshot for publishing?
The amount of effort put in is directly related to the final quality you desire. For me, there would be no "easy" automated solution to a quality image. But, with just a little effort, manually you ...
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Why is my SVG file so big?
I would look at the number of anchor points you have in the SVG file. More anchors points can typically increase the file size as there is more information to be rendered.
I opened the two SVG files ...
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Reduce File Size of SVG
@Xrott has provided the correct answer here. After examining the SVG, I see the exact same problems. This is really an operator issue, nothing to do with the quality of the original, or Inkscape.
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How to convert cut-out shapes to optimized stacked shapes with minimum points?
Since you're satisfied with the traced shapes, perhaps you could figure out a way to keep the bitmap stacked as transparent layers before tracing then?
This way the shapes below the yellow "...
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How to convert cut-out shapes to optimized stacked shapes with minimum points?
You probably don't want to hear this, but auto tracing will never give you a result like that - especially not with an image like the example which has blurry edges. At best, you might be able to ...
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Why does this SVG element have so much whitespace?
The extra space is the extent of the gaussian blur filter that has been added to the highlight in the middle of the crowbar.
To be honest, you can just ignore this. It shouldn't stop you from just ...
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Optimizing images: Resize or optimize first?
My two cents.
I must say that I was a little obsessed with the topic, but not that much anymore.
I do not use "third-party" tools for optimizing file weight, I do not feel it is really ...
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Why is the same image being scaled differently by photoshop and Gimp
All image scaling introduces some blur since pixels are interpolated. You can mitigate this by sharpening the image after the scaling. For instance, just using Gimp Filters>Enhance>Sharpen (...
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Why is the same image being scaled differently by photoshop and Gimp
Ok so scaling is a signal processing thing. Conceptually it works as follows*
Discrete image is converted into a continuous image. This is called rebuilding it is done by convolving the discrete ...
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Tried making a gif transparent, unoptomized I got a trail, optomized I got a grainy effect
You have to get back to the original image. The frames in the second image contain a trail of the previous frames. This is your top frame layer alone:
As far as I can tell the optimization done by ...
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Why does enabling transparency in an animated gif reduce its file size?
That's about the file you provided.
Almost the colors have some transparency, but black color.
Use the color picker in opacity mode to verify it by yourself.
You can verify it in the color pallete ...
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Programmatically created a gradient effect through division of space into fine mesh, and then colouring each box. SVG output huge! How to simplify?
Rather than boxes, why don't you create a grid using a couple of paths and the Interpolate extension. The shapes don't have to be boxes ether, just a regular single path.
So the finished SVG will ...
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How to compress an EPS/SVG file by removing invisible vector data?
There is no guarantee that doing this actually compresses anything. It is often so that overlapping content actually is more compressed than not overlapping, So your size may actually increase, ...
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